When Dong Guo Yao and Sheng Daishu went home, the second sister, the second brother-in-law, the younger brother Dong Guo Xiaoxin and his nephew Yang Xiaoqiang had already returned.

At this moment, the men were all watching TV in the hall, and the women were all gathered in Dong Guo Yao's room, and laughter came from inside from time to time.

Seeing Dong Guo Yao coming back, his nephew Yang Xiaoqiang jumped up and ran over, and shouted affectionately: "Uncle!"

"I haven't seen you for a few years, and I've grown so tall. Dongguo Yao said with a smile. Looking at his nephew, who was almost as high as his chest, Dong Guo Yao sighed again that the years were really a pig-killing knife, and in a blink of an eye, the children of the second sister were so old.

"Uncle, your "Breaking the Sky" you wrote is so beautiful, I chase it every day. ”

Yang Xiaoqiang said excitedly.

Dongguo Yao was stunned when he heard this, and said, "If you don't study hard, what kind of novels do you read?"

"Now for the summer vacation, relax, uncle, you don't know, the class group in our class is now discussing the next plot of the novel every day, and someone has written a copycat version of the chapter and put it in the class group. Yang Xiaoqiang looked at Dong Guo Yao and said with a look of admiration.

"How do you know that I wrote "Breaking the Sky"?" asked Dong Guo Yao with some doubts.

"You don't know how popular you are on the Internet now, many people in our class regard you as an idol, and they are clamoring every day to write a novel as wonderful as "Breaking the Sky", and they don't believe it when I tell them that you are my uncle. ”

Yang Xiaoqiang said, took out his mobile phone and said to Dongguo Yao: "Uncle, take a group photo." ”

"What kind of photo, you say it in the group in advance, and then ask your aunt to take you to the live broadcast, won't they all be able to see it?"

"Really, take me on the stream?" When Yang Xiaoqiang heard this, he immediately opened his mouth in surprise, and then moved his gaze to Sheng Daishu.

"No problem. Sheng Daishu readily agreed.

"Long live Auntie!"

After cheering excitedly, Yang Xiaoqiang came to Dongguo Yao again, and said in a consultative tone: "Uncle, I will discuss something with you." ”

"What?"

Looking at the guy's flattering appearance, Dong Guo Yao asked vigilantly.

Yang Xiaoqiang begged as a please: "Uncle, can you show me the manuscript of "Dou Po", I really want to see the plot of Xiao Yan after entering the Demon Beast Mountain Range, I know you must have a manuscript." ”

When Dong Guo Yao heard this, he suddenly asked for no reason: "How many points did you take in the final exam?"

When Yang Xiaoqiang heard this, he showed a weak expression on his face, and said with some lack of energy: "Uncle, I don't talk about scores in high school, I only talk about the ranking of the whole grade." ”

"Oh, and what's your rank?"

Dong Guo Yao said with a smile.

"I didn't play well at the end of the semester, and I was only ranked 326th. Yang Xiaoqiang scratched his head and said a little embarrassed.

"Don't tell me you only have over 300 people in your grade. Dongguo Yao said.

"How is it possible, there are more than 1,800 people in our grade, and I am also considered to be in the upper middle class. Yang Xiaoqiang hurriedly said when he heard this.

"Oh, that's okay!" Dong Guo Yao nodded when he heard this.

"So uncle, just show me the next chapters, I promise to study hard in the future and strive to be admitted...... Well, Jiangzhou University. Yang Xiaoqiang raised his hand and swore.

"Can't you just wait for the update and then look at it?" Dongguo Yao said.

"Oh, I can't wait, my heart is itching uncomfortably if I don't look at the later chapters, who told you to write so beautifully, uncle!" Yang Xiaoqiang hurriedly patted his ass.

Dongguo Yao couldn't just say: "Let's talk about it after eating." ”

When Yang Xiaoqiang heard this, he hurriedly ran into the house, and shouted as he ran: "Grandma, Mom, uncle is back and has dinner." ”

Dongguo Xiaobei was woken up by this voice, looked around in confusion, and after figuring out the bad situation he was in now, he flashed his eyes and said, "Huh...... Isn't this the teacher's grandfather's house?"

"Yes, we'll eat first, and I'll take you home after dinner. ”

Dong Guo Yao said, and carried Xiaobei to the chair that the old mother had set up before.

When the women in the room heard that Dong Guo Yao had returned, they walked out of the room and prepared to eat.

The family hadn't been together for a long time, and while eating, they were chatting about some happy things, and the whole meal was finished in a burst of laughter.

After eating, Dong Guo Yao sent Xiaobei home, and stayed at Xiaobei's house for about an hour, not knowing what to talk about with Xiaobei's father.

When I got home, I was about to walk into the room, but I saw Sheng Qianyu, Sheng Daishu and Yang Xiaoqiang holding a small cloth bag and a flashlight standing in the yard waiting for them.

Seeing Dongguo Yao coming back, Yang Xiaoqiang said, "Uncle, I have caught the monkey." ”

"What?"

Dong Guo Yao didn't react for a while.

"Caught the monkey!"

Yang Xiaoqiang said again.

When Dong Guo Yao heard this, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately waved his hand: "Let's go!"

After three or four years of slow growth underground, the monkey, the nymph of the cicada, commonly known as the cicada chrysalis, will break through the ground in the summer, instinctively find a tree to climb up, and then turn into a cicada.

Cicada pupae can be eaten and are nutritious, and the most common way is to wash the cicada pupae and marinate them with a variety of condiments and then fry them.

Dong Guo Yao didn't catch this thing when he was a child, and he also took a bite of a green bamboo dart for this reason, and almost lost his life, but he still didn't change his life, and he still drilled into the woods at night after he recovered.

It can be said that catching the monkey is the most indelible memory of his childhood. So as soon as he heard that he was going to catch the monkey, he didn't even know how to code, and immediately joined the army of the monkey.

"Seeing how excited you looked, you didn't go to catch it when you were a child, right?" Sheng Qianyu asked with a smile.

"At the most, I can catch more than 200 in a day!" Dongguo Yao said with some smugness when he heard this. For catching monkeys, he has a lot of experience.

It is known that the monkey is divided into time periods.

It is generally from 5 p.m. to 12 midnight.

Among them, it is divided into four stages, and each time period is captured in a different way.

The first time period is around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the monkey has not yet climbed out, if you want to catch it, you can use a triangular hoe to scrape off a layer of ground around the big tree where the monkey originally appeared, about half a centimeter thick, and you can generally see the entrance of the new monkey cave.

It should be noted that the method of "scraping the ground" under the trees with more old cave entrances is generally not obvious, and it is best to look for it under the large trees with relatively few and scattered old cave entrances.

The second time period is about 6 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky is getting dark, this time is mainly to look for a new monkey cave under the tree, generally speaking, the hole of the monkey that is about to be "unearthed" is similar in shape to the ant cave, but the difference is that the monkey cave mouth will become larger as long as you touch it.

Knowing that the monkey is generally located a little downwards of the cave entrance, this is when "eyesight" is needed, and many experienced people can distinguish the real from the fake at a glance.

As for how to get the monkey out of the hole, there is also a trick?

One way is to use an iron tool to dig the hole and take out the monkey directly, but this is easy to damage the monkey and destroy the surrounding environment. Another method is "inducement", where a small branch is inserted through the hole, taking care not to touch the monkey, and when the monkey grabs the branch, it is lifted.

The third time period is about 7 o'clock to 7:30 o'clock, when the sky is almost dark, knowing that the monkey has just come out of the hole, it is generally crawling on the surrounding ground, ready to go up the tree, at this time take a flashlight and look for it under the big tree.

The last time period is between 8:30 and 9 o'clock, when the monkeys have climbed the trunk of the tree, and can climb to a position about the same height as a human, and can climb several meters high as fast. At this time, you need to use a flashlight to shine on the trunk of the tree, and it is best to bring a bamboo pole, so that the monkey can also reach the high level.

When passing by the commissary at the entrance of the village, Dong Guo Yao stopped and bought two large rolls of scotch tape in the shop.

"Uncle, what did you buy tape for, did you use it to stick that bug?" Yang Xiaoqiang asked curiously.

Sheng Qianyu and Sheng Daishu also looked at Dong Guo Yao with a puzzled expression.

"Mountain people have their own wonderful uses, you will know later!" Dong Guo Yao deliberately sold a pass, and after throwing a roll of scotch tape to Yang Xiaoqiang, he whistled and walked towards the grove by the river.

When he came to the river, he saw that the sky was not completely dark, so Dong Guo Yao said: "Go your separate ways, Xiaoqiang, you and your aunt will work together as much as possible to find some big trees with holes under the trees and cicadas to wrap them around with tape, and remember to wrap the tape smoother." ”

"Aren't you here to catch bugs, what are you doing with tape?" Sheng Daishu asked suspiciously.

"Want to know, right?" said Dong Guo Yao mysteriously.

Sheng Daishu and Yang Xiaoqiang nodded desperately.

"Guess!"

Dong Guo Yao said with a smile.

"Sister, look at brother-in-law!"

Sheng Daishu stomped his feet angrily when he heard this, and pointed at Dongguo Yao and Sheng Qianyu to complain.

Sheng Qianyu glanced at Dong Guo Yao and said, "Not serious!"

Seeing this, Dong Guo Yao hurriedly said: "Forget it, forget it, tell you." The surface of the tape is very smooth, and if the monkey can't catch something when he climbs to the place where the tape is tied, he will gather under the tape, so it will be convenient for us to catch it. ”

When Yang Xiaoqiang heard this, he immediately understood, and exclaimed: "Wow, uncle, you are so smart!"

"Of course, otherwise you think I was caught more than 200 a day when I was a child. Dongguo Yaozhi said proudly.

When the group heard his explanation, they all suddenly realized it and began to act one after another.

Then, before he could finish wrapping the tape in his hand, Xiaoqiang came with good news: "I caught it, I caught it." ”

When Sheng Daishu heard this, he hurriedly moved closer to him, and sure enough, he saw that he was holding the fat monkey in his hand.

"How did you catch it?" Sheng Daishu said, pinching the fat monkey in his hand, he was not afraid at all, this ugly-looking thing.

"I saw that there were many holes under the tree, so I broke a small branch and put it in, and I felt pulled by something from above, and I gently pulled it out and saw this guy lying on the branch. ”

Yang Xiaoqiang described it vividly.

"I'll try, I'll try. ”

When Sheng Daishu heard this, he hurriedly folded branches to find the entrance to the cave.

"Xiao Shu is so bold?" Dong Guo Yao asked Chao Sheng, who was a little surprised when he saw this.

"She was not afraid of these things since she was a child, and when she was a child, she stuffed caterpillars into my stationery box, and when I opened the box during class, I was almost half scared to death, and I overturned the table. Sheng Qianqian said.

"Hahaha!"

Dong Guo Yao laughed loudly when he heard this.

"What are you laughing at?

Sheng Qianyu said, and he was about to hammer Dong Guo Yao.

Dong Guo Yao grabbed her little fist and asked softly, "What did my mother tell you?"

"I didn't ...... It's nothing. ”

When Sheng Qianyu heard this, his face turned red, and his hands immediately lost his strength.

"Tell me about it. Dong Guo Yao continued.

"Don't say it. Sheng Qianyu lowered his head.

"I caught it too, haha!"

Sheng Daishu's surprised voice came from the side.

"Me too, I have two of them!"

Yang Xiaoqiang also shouted on the side.

"Let's look for it too. Sheng Qianyu said busily when he heard this.

"Aren't you afraid?" asked Dong Guo Yao.

"I'm afraid!" Sheng Qianqian said.

"Then you go back. Dongguo Yao asked.

"Aren't you by my side?" Sheng said in a low voice.

"Okay, let's start looking too!" This sentence seemed to have a very good effect on every man, and Dong Guo Yao was about to laugh when he heard this.

Next, while chatting, the four of them began to look for the hole of the monkey, and then fished out the monkey with a branch.

Before you know it, night is creeping in.

"Ahh

"How many?" Yang Xiaoqiang asked.

"More than twenty, right?" replied Sheng Daishu.

"Really, there can be so many in one hole?" Yang Xiaoqiang said he didn't believe it.

"It's not in the hole, it's on the tree, it's under the tape, you look at the tree next to you with the tape. Sheng Daishu pointed to the trunk of the tree and said.

When Yang Xiaoqiang heard this, he hurriedly shone the flashlight in his hand on the trunk of the tree, and when he saw it, he immediately exclaimed: "It's really a lot, I patronized the hole under the tree before, but I didn't expect these guys to have quietly climbed the tree." ”

After discovering that the monkeys had begun to go up the tree, several people no longer bent their waists to find a hole under the tree to seduce the monkey, but directly picked up the monkey on the tree.

Knowing that the monkeys are very honest, they will not run away and are easy to catch, basically they are caught by hand, and after a while, everyone is half a bag.

Dong Guo Yao saw that there were already a lot of monkeys he had caught, and thought that he still had a task to complete, so he said, "It's almost time to go back!"

Sheng Qianyu naturally had no objections.

Sheng Daishu thought about the snake she saw today, and she was also a little worried in her heart, and she also wanted to go back.

But Yang Xiaoqiang didn't want to go back.

"Aren't you going to watch the follow-up chapters of 'Dou Po'? Dong Guo Yao had no choice but to use a killer move.

"Really?" Yang Xiaoqiang said when he heard this, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"When did Uncle lie to you. Dong Guo Yao said.

When Yang Xiaoqiang heard this, he smiled and said, "Let's go, go home!"

As he spoke, he walked ahead and led the way.

After the monkey is caught, it needs to be marinated immediately if it is to be stored for a long time. If it is not pickled, the monkey will molt, even if it does not go up the tree, it will molt the next day.

And once the molt, no matter how tender the cicada is, it will turn black and old, although it can be eaten, but the taste is far less crispy and delicious than the monkey.

Therefore, in order to prevent the monkey from molting and not being able to sell it at a good price, Dong Guo Yao handed over the monkey to his mother as soon as he returned home and let her pickle it.

Hearing that the monkey was going to be pickled, Sheng Qianyu and Sheng Daishu both ran over to watch it with great interest.

Dong Guo Yao originally wanted to go to his younger brother Dong Guo Xiaoxin to talk about opening a studio, but he was pestered by Yang Xiaoqiang to ask for a follow-up draft of "Breaking the Sky".

Dong Guo Yao had no choice but to take out the computer from his computer bag and throw it to him, and instructed: "Don't leak it to me, otherwise I'll pick your skin!" After that, he went to the uncle's house to find Dong Guo Xiaoxin.

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ps: It's too late, I'm too lazy to score a chapter, a big chapter of more than 4000 words.